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DeAndre Jordan

I know the Clippers will probably match any offer given to DeAndre, but shouldn't we be going after him too. He would be my first choice in PF's that are available.
The worst that could happen by offering him a big deal and having the Clippers match is that they might have to choice between Gordon and Griffin for the long term. Then we would have a better chance a Gordon next summer.

Re: DeAndre Jordan

I know the Clippers will probably match any offer given to DeAndre, but shouldn't we be going after him too. He would be my first choice in PF's that are available.
The worst that could happen by offering him a big deal and having the Clippers match is that they might have to choice between Gordon and Griffin for the long term. Then we would have a better chance a Gordon next summer.

Yes that is exactly right. We should offer him a large contract and if he accepts he will be that bruising PF that we wanted who will block shots and rebound. If Clippers match, then it will make it that much harder for them to resign Gordon.

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Where is Harrison now? I know it won't happen, but to be quite honest, I wouldn't be upset if he was given the opportunity to be Hibbert's B/U. Sign him to a 1 year deal like Charlotte did Kwame Brown, and give it a shot. It worked out quite well for Charlotte. Just put in his contract he can't frat with Rush!!!

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Where is Harrison now? I know it won't happen, but to be quite honest, I wouldn't be upset if he was given the opportunity to be Hibbert's B/U. Sign him to a 1 year deal like Charlotte did Kwame Brown, and give it a shot. It worked out quite well for Charlotte. Just put in his contract he can't frat with Rush!!!

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DeAndre Jordan can maybe take another step forward this season. That would be huge for the Clippers.

I think Jordan can defend PFs who play deeper than 18ft, traditional 4s, as well as he does centers, just not more perimeter oriented ones. Of course, the biggest problem is that he isn't that good defending centers anyway.

How would he rate in terms of defense at the 5, even including his help defense? Top-20? Top-30? I doubt top-20, quite possibly top-30. Easily below average. Then again, he's showed steady and notorious improvement and he may very well keep going.

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Man...I'll be so excited when Gordon resigns with the Clippers, and we no longer have to spend countless hours trying to devise trades/plans to get him to Indiana.

The Gordon trade talks is starting to be commonplace as "Indiana is a bunch of thugs" comments....

Normally we'd have to overpay a guy to get him to come here, but on top of that we have a fan base here that way over-values the guy. That's a bad combination. Not that I wouldn't like to have him here, but is he really worth all this obsession just because he's familiar?

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Normally we'd have to overpay a guy to get him to come here, but on top of that we have a fan base here that way over-values the guy. That's a bad combination. Not that I wouldn't like to have him here, but is he really worth all this obsession just because he's familiar?

As far as shooting guards go, he's the best player I can see potentially signing with the Pacers. Just in the sense that there's a possibility he could. Dwyane Wade, Monta Ellis, Joe Johnson, even Jamal Crawford all may have no interest in coming to Indiana, but even the rumor that EJ could sign here due to "inside connections", love of hometown, or whatever, renders him the best available player who could actually sign here.

Also, in this article, which I believe we've seen posted here before, EJ was voted 4/5 to be the most promising shooting guard (the remaining vote to Paul George); he's still young, he's still got a ton of potential, and if it's true that he wants to be in Indy, then why deny him the opportunity to do so, for any amount of money (under $15m)?